Narcos, sy no Narcos
Nafta, Nafta and Don'ts 
THERE SO COME IN Gringolandia. ACA SE VE IS THE BUSINESS OF POLITICAL genocidal Zedillo, Fox and Calderon SALINAS legalize drugs WHEN THEY ARE GOING TO WIN.
FRIEDMAN Published: May 1, 2010
By THOMAS L.
Mexico City
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/opinion/02friedman.html?ref=opinion
This is a strange time to U.S. relations Mexico. Mexico's government has just issued a warning notice to passengers Mexicans go to Arizona - where they could be arrested by police for no reason - and the U.S. government recently issued a travel advisory warning Americans about going to the north of Mexico - where they could get shot by drug dealers for no reason. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart de Mexico is expected to open 300 new stores in Mexico this year, thanks to the growing Mexican demand for consumer goods. And the drug cartels in Mexico, probably will open as many new smuggling routes in America thanks to our growing demand for marijuana, cocaine and crystal methamphetamine. We Mexico-American relationship for granted. But the war against drugs in Mexico to become the Wild West shootouts in the streets of the city and with our own immigration policy becoming hotter, what is happening in Mexico has become much more critical of U.S. foreign policy and fund more of our attention. Mexico is not Afghanistan, but has not become all that I expected to be at this point. Something you feel stuck here. Three groups are now striving to shape the future of Mexico. I call the "narcos", "" no and "NAFTA." Following the Naphtha.
The traffickers are the drug cartels are now openly attacking each other in turf wars and challenging the state to control the cities. The U.S. success and Colombia's efforts to prohibit drug trafficking in the Caribbean and northern Colombia have forced the cartels to move their main smuggling through the backbone of Mexico. President Felipe Calderon is valiantly trying to take, but the traffickers are more weapons than the Mexican army - most of smuggling weapons from U.S. stores.
The Mexican newspaper Reforma reported last week that "the recent wave of insecurity in Mexico has made businesses related to public safety, shielding, insurance, systems satellite positioning and body armor grow at an unprecedented level. "Firms in Mexico, he said, now spend between 1 and 3 percent of its sales in safety. In 2006 was only 0.5 percent.
While the traffickers are increasing the bad news story here, the story is good news increasing burgeoning middle class of Mexico - more or less. Mexico has two middle classes. You live in the oil produced and exported by the state company Pemex oil, which funds 40 percent of the government budget. This budget supports a network of salaries and allowances to teachers unions, workers in the national electricity company, clusters farmers, state employees and workers of Pemex.
I call this group for the years not to be the primary force opposing any reform that would involve the privatization of state enterprises such as Pemex, the opening of oil and electricity sectors to foreign investors or domestic competition, or best practices and bring accountability to schools in Mexico, where the union has maintained control of public education in Mexico among the worst in the world.
Fortunately, however, there is another rising middle class here that the Mexican economist Luis de la Calle, described as the "middle class meritocracy." These are people who came from field to work in new industries created by NAFTA. The rising middle class has a powerful suction to remove poverty. Mexico has standardized school achievement tests, so you can see how well a school district to another stack. Some of the best results, said De la Calle, can now be found in small private schools in the slums of Mexico City, home to gasoline.
What is also notable, he said, are the names of private schools in some of these poor districts of Mexico City - as Iztapalapa: "They called John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Isaac Newton, Winston Churchill, Karl Marx Van Gogh's Wisdom and the Institute. "Why these names? They are appealing to the aspirations of the Mexicans, 40 percent of whom live below the poverty line but 75 percent of whom identify themselves as" middle class " surveys.
De la Calle also studied the first 50 Mexican baby names in 2008. The most popular for girls, he said, were "Elizabeth, Evelyn, Abigail, Karen, Marilyn and Jacqueline, and children Alexander, Jonathan, Kevin, Chris and Bryan. "Not only is Juanes." We have two middle classes, "he said." One comes from teachers' unions and Pemex and electricity companies, the milk that the Mexican government. These are the conservative middle class, and want to maintain the status quo. But there is a way out and have Mexican middle class much larger than is released from the bottom to send their children to Wisdom Institute and the end of the world based on merit. "
So here's my prediction: When Mexico is steadily falling oil production responds to their growing middle classes of meritocracy, you will see real political and economic reform here. This is when the number of no longer have the resources to maintain the status quo, and that is when the naphtha of Wisdom Institute will require reforms to help them reach their full potential.
-----------
Narcos, No’s and Nafta
This is a strange time for U.S.-Mexico relations. The Mexican government just issued a travel advisory warning Mexicans about going to Arizona — where they could get arrested by the police for no reason — and the U.S. government just issued a travel advisory warning Americans about going to northern Mexico — where they could get shot by drug dealers for no reason. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart de Mexico is expected to open 300 new stores in Mexico this year, thanks to growing Mexican demand for consumer goods. And Mexico’s drug cartels will probably open just as many new smuggling routes into America thanks to our growing demand for marijuana, cocaine and crystal meth.
We take the Mexican-American relationship for granted. But with the drug wars in Mexico turning into Wild West shootouts on city streets and with our own immigration politics turning more heated, what’s happening in Mexico has become much more critical to American foreign policy and merits more of our attention. Mexico is not Afghanistan, but it also has not become all that it hoped to be by now. Something feels stalled here.
Three groups are now wrestling to shape Mexico’s future. I’d call them “the Narcos,” “the No’s” and “the Naftas.” Root for the Naftas.
The Narcos are the drug cartels who are now brazenly attacking each other in turf wars and challenging the state for control of towns. The success of U.S. and Colombian efforts to interdict drug trafficking through the Caribbean and north from Colombia have pushed the cartels to relocate their main smuggling up through the spine of Mexico. President Felipe Calderón is bravely trying to take them on, but the Narcos have bigger guns than the Mexican Army — most smuggled in from U.S. gun stores.
The Mexican daily Reforma reported last week that “the recent wave of insecurity in Mexico has made businesses related to public security, automobile armoring, insurance, satellite positioning systems and bulletproof vests grow at an unprecedented level.” Companies in Mexico, it added, now invest between 1 percent and 3 percent of their sales in security. In 2006, it was just 0.5 percent.
While the Narcos are the rising bad-news story here, the rising good-news story is Mexico’s burgeoning middle class — sort of. Mexico has two middle classes. One lives off the oil pumped and exported by the state oil company Pemex, which funds 40 percent of the government’s budget. That budget sustains a web of salaries and subsidies to teachers’ unions, national electricity company workers, farmers unions, state employees and Pemex workers.
I call this group the No’s because they are the primary force opposing any reform that would involve privatizing state-owned companies, like Pemex, opening the oil or electricity sectors to foreign investors or domestic competition, or bringing best-practices and accountability to Mexican schools, where union control has kept Mexico’s public education among the worst in the world.
Fortunately, though, there is another rising middle class here, which the Mexican economist Luis de la Calle describes as the “meritocratic middle class.” It’s people who came from the countryside to work in new industries spawned by Nafta. This rising middle class has a powerful aspiration to dig out of poverty. Mexico has standardized school achievement tests, so you can see how well schools in one neighborhood stack up against another. Some of the best results, said de la Calle, can now be found in small private schools in poor Mexico City neighborhoods where the Naftas reside.
What is also striking, he added, are the names of the private schools in some of these poor Mexico City districts — like Iztapalapa: “They are called John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Isaac Newton, Winston Churchill, Carlos Marx, Van Gogh and Instituto Wisdom.” Why such names? They are appealing to the aspirations of Mexicans, about 40 percent of whom live below the poverty line but 75 percent of whom identify themselves as “middle class” in polls.
De la Calle also studied the top 50 Mexican baby names in 2008. The most popular for girls, he said, included “Elizabeth, Evelyn, Abigail, Karen, Marilyn and Jaqueline, and for boys Alexander, Jonathan, Kevin, Christian and Bryan.” Not only Juans. “We have two middle classes,” he said. “One comes from teachers’ unions and Pemex and power companies, who milk the Mexican government. These are the middle-class conservatives, and they want to preserve the status quo. But there is a rising and far larger Mexican middle class coming up from the bottom who send their kids to the Instituto Wisdom and who have a meritocratic view of the world.”
So here’s my prediction: When Mexico’s steadily falling oil production meets its rising meritocratic middle class, you will see real political/economic reform here. That is when the No’s will no longer have the resources to maintain the status quo, and that is when the naphtha from the Wisdom Institute will demand the Reforms That will enable to realize Them Their full potential.
Kikka-roja.blogspot.com /
While the traffickers are increasing the bad news story here, the story is good news increasing burgeoning middle class of Mexico - more or less. Mexico has two middle classes. You live in the oil produced and exported by the state company Pemex oil, which funds 40 percent of the government budget. This budget supports a network of salaries and allowances to teachers unions, workers in the national electricity company, clusters farmers, state employees and workers of Pemex.
I call this group for the years not to be the primary force opposing any reform that would involve the privatization of state enterprises such as Pemex, the opening of oil and electricity sectors to foreign investors or domestic competition, or best practices and bring accountability to schools in Mexico, where the union has maintained control of public education in Mexico among the worst in the world.
Fortunately, however, there is another rising middle class here that the Mexican economist Luis de la Calle, described as the "middle class meritocracy." These are people who came from field to work in new industries created by NAFTA. The rising middle class has a powerful suction to remove poverty. Mexico has standardized school achievement tests, so you can see how well a school district to another stack. Some of the best results, said De la Calle, can now be found in small private schools in the slums of Mexico City, home to gasoline.
What is also notable, he said, are the names of private schools in some of these poor districts of Mexico City - as Iztapalapa: "They called John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Isaac Newton, Winston Churchill, Karl Marx Van Gogh's Wisdom and the Institute. "Why these names? They are appealing to the aspirations of the Mexicans, 40 percent of whom live below the poverty line but 75 percent of whom identify themselves as" middle class " surveys.
De la Calle also studied the first 50 Mexican baby names in 2008. The most popular for girls, he said, were "Elizabeth, Evelyn, Abigail, Karen, Marilyn and Jacqueline, and children Alexander, Jonathan, Kevin, Chris and Bryan. "Not only is Juanes." We have two middle classes, "he said." One comes from teachers' unions and Pemex and electricity companies, the milk that the Mexican government. These are the conservative middle class, and want to maintain the status quo. But there is a way out and have Mexican middle class much larger than is released from the bottom to send their children to Wisdom Institute and the end of the world based on merit. "
So here's my prediction: When Mexico is steadily falling oil production responds to their growing middle classes of meritocracy, you will see real political and economic reform here. This is when the number of no longer have the resources to maintain the status quo, and that is when the naphtha of Wisdom Institute will require reforms to help them reach their full potential.
-----------
Narcos, No’s and Nafta
This is a strange time for U.S.-Mexico relations. The Mexican government just issued a travel advisory warning Mexicans about going to Arizona — where they could get arrested by the police for no reason — and the U.S. government just issued a travel advisory warning Americans about going to northern Mexico — where they could get shot by drug dealers for no reason. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart de Mexico is expected to open 300 new stores in Mexico this year, thanks to growing Mexican demand for consumer goods. And Mexico’s drug cartels will probably open just as many new smuggling routes into America thanks to our growing demand for marijuana, cocaine and crystal meth.
We take the Mexican-American relationship for granted. But with the drug wars in Mexico turning into Wild West shootouts on city streets and with our own immigration politics turning more heated, what’s happening in Mexico has become much more critical to American foreign policy and merits more of our attention. Mexico is not Afghanistan, but it also has not become all that it hoped to be by now. Something feels stalled here.
Three groups are now wrestling to shape Mexico’s future. I’d call them “the Narcos,” “the No’s” and “the Naftas.” Root for the Naftas.
The Narcos are the drug cartels who are now brazenly attacking each other in turf wars and challenging the state for control of towns. The success of U.S. and Colombian efforts to interdict drug trafficking through the Caribbean and north from Colombia have pushed the cartels to relocate their main smuggling up through the spine of Mexico. President Felipe Calderón is bravely trying to take them on, but the Narcos have bigger guns than the Mexican Army — most smuggled in from U.S. gun stores.
The Mexican daily Reforma reported last week that “the recent wave of insecurity in Mexico has made businesses related to public security, automobile armoring, insurance, satellite positioning systems and bulletproof vests grow at an unprecedented level.” Companies in Mexico, it added, now invest between 1 percent and 3 percent of their sales in security. In 2006, it was just 0.5 percent.
While the Narcos are the rising bad-news story here, the rising good-news story is Mexico’s burgeoning middle class — sort of. Mexico has two middle classes. One lives off the oil pumped and exported by the state oil company Pemex, which funds 40 percent of the government’s budget. That budget sustains a web of salaries and subsidies to teachers’ unions, national electricity company workers, farmers unions, state employees and Pemex workers.
I call this group the No’s because they are the primary force opposing any reform that would involve privatizing state-owned companies, like Pemex, opening the oil or electricity sectors to foreign investors or domestic competition, or bringing best-practices and accountability to Mexican schools, where union control has kept Mexico’s public education among the worst in the world.
Fortunately, though, there is another rising middle class here, which the Mexican economist Luis de la Calle describes as the “meritocratic middle class.” It’s people who came from the countryside to work in new industries spawned by Nafta. This rising middle class has a powerful aspiration to dig out of poverty. Mexico has standardized school achievement tests, so you can see how well schools in one neighborhood stack up against another. Some of the best results, said de la Calle, can now be found in small private schools in poor Mexico City neighborhoods where the Naftas reside.
What is also striking, he added, are the names of the private schools in some of these poor Mexico City districts — like Iztapalapa: “They are called John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Isaac Newton, Winston Churchill, Carlos Marx, Van Gogh and Instituto Wisdom.” Why such names? They are appealing to the aspirations of Mexicans, about 40 percent of whom live below the poverty line but 75 percent of whom identify themselves as “middle class” in polls.
De la Calle also studied the top 50 Mexican baby names in 2008. The most popular for girls, he said, included “Elizabeth, Evelyn, Abigail, Karen, Marilyn and Jaqueline, and for boys Alexander, Jonathan, Kevin, Christian and Bryan.” Not only Juans. “We have two middle classes,” he said. “One comes from teachers’ unions and Pemex and power companies, who milk the Mexican government. These are the middle-class conservatives, and they want to preserve the status quo. But there is a rising and far larger Mexican middle class coming up from the bottom who send their kids to the Instituto Wisdom and who have a meritocratic view of the world.”
So here’s my prediction: When Mexico’s steadily falling oil production meets its rising meritocratic middle class, you will see real political/economic reform here. That is when the No’s will no longer have the resources to maintain the status quo, and that is when the naphtha from the Wisdom Institute will demand the Reforms That will enable to realize Them Their full potential.
Kikka-roja.blogspot.com /
0 comments:
Post a Comment